![]() These recruits were from disparate cultures, but in fact they all shared one curious trait. This purity of gene stock allowed for rapid growth, which the newly-formed Legion took full advantage of. They were exceptional by way of their perfection there were no recorded rejections or abnormalities amongst the “alpha” intake, and the Legion benefited from recruits from all over Terra. The Ultramarines were, as with their brother legions, founded on Terra at the end of the Unification Wars. This, in many ways, makes the betrayal they endured far more bitter. The Ultramarines are a fighting force without peer, true, but they are also an image of civilisation, and what Humanity under wise leadership could be. ![]() They are the lords of the Five Hundred Worlds, the lapis-blue guardians of a shining Elysium forged by the brilliance of Robute Guilliman among the carnage of the Great Crusade. The UItramarines are the Thirteenth Legion Astartes, but to simply label them as such is, I feel, to do them a disservice they are more than that. ![]()
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